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Why Is General Mattis Nominating the ‘Muslim Brotherhood’s Stooge’?

T. Belman. You have to wonder why Trump appointed Mattis, McMaster and Tillerson. Mattis thinks that Israel’s capital is Tel Aviv and supports the failed TSS. McMaster thinks Islam is a religion of peace. Tillerson also supports the TSS. Friedman and Kushner reject the TSS. This is a prescription for a fractious cabinet.

If nominated and confirmed, Patterson would hold the fourth most powerful position at the Pentagon — and would effectively be the top civilian in the Defense Department, since both Mattis and his deputy, Robert Work, were military officers.

As ambassador to Egypt between 2011 and 2013, Patterson worked closely with former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi and his Islamist government. She came under fire for cultivating too close a relationship with the regime and for discouraging protests against it — and White House officials are voicing concerns about those decisions now.

This is putting it mildly. Back during the months leading to the June 30, 2013 revolution, Patterson — the “Brotherhood’s Stooge” as she was called by all, from news analysts to the Egyptian street — was arguably one of the most hated individuals by the millions of Egyptians who took to the streets against Morsi and the Brotherhood.

Not only did her face regularly appear next to Obama’s in placards; it sometimes appeared alone, indicating just how closely she was seen as supporting the Brotherhood. It should be noted that these were not isolated sightings, as shown by the number of different placards and signs:

Below are just a few anecdotes that I have translated from Arabic language media before, during, and after the June 30, 2013 revolution that highlight Patterson’s unsavory ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.

In the days leading to the revolution, Patterson called on Egyptians not to protest. She even met with the Coptic pope and asked him specifically to urge the nation’s Christian minority not to oppose the Brotherhood — even though Christians were naturally going to suffer the most under Morsi, especially in the context of accusations of “blasphemy.”

Soon after the revolution, she repeatedly tried to reinstate the Brotherhood to power.

Later, Patterson demanded that Egypt’s recently appointed supreme commander of the Egyptian Armed Forces, General Abdul Fatah al-Sisi, release all Muslim Brotherhood members currently being held for questioning:

And when Sisi rejected this order, the American ambassador began threatening him that Egypt will turn into another Syria and live through a civil war.

Another report said Patterson was “trying to communicate with General Sisi, demanding dialogue with the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, and concessions to them,” to which Sisi reportedly retorted:

In a live interview on Tahrir TV, political insider and former Egyptian Member of Parliament Mustafa Bakari exposed the relationship between Patterson and Khairat al-Shater, the deputy leader of the Muslim Brotherhood.

He said she was regularly seen going to and from the Brotherhood leader’s private residence, as opposed to meeting at the party’s headquarters. He said she told al-Shater “we [the U.S.] will stand with you [regarding the June 30 protests],” and that she treated the Brotherhood leader as the “true ruler of the nation.” Bakari concluded by saying:

[I]n fact, in my opinion, she is a member of the sleeper cells of the Brotherhood, likely recruited by Essam al-Erian or Muhammad al-Baltagi.

Because of all this, several of Egypt’s revolutionary forces, including Tamarod, which played a pivotal role in the June 30 Revolution, staged protests in front of the U.S. embassy in Cairo “calling for the ejection of ambassador Anne Patterson.”

In connection, Egyptian journalist Abdullah al-Sanawi said this on live TV:

Anne Patterson’s presence in Egypt has become a great burden for America, and Patterson should be admitted into a mental hospital for her deeds are full of bloodshed and the Obama administration is in a very awkward position in front of the whole world, the [U.S.] Congress and the Pentagon.

Soon thereafter, Youm 7, a popular newspaper in Egypt (then the sixth-most visited website in the nation according to Alexa.com), conducted a survey asking its readers:

Do you support the call to kick U.S. Ambassador Anne Patterson out because she interfered in Egyptian affairs?

A whopping 87.93% said yes, 10.54% said no, and 1.53% were indifferent. Youm 7’s audience is almost exclusively secular-leaning or Christian. It was the non-Islamists of Egypt that disliked the U.S. ambassador — not the Muslim Brotherhood, which benefited from her.

In 2013, even Foreign Policy, a publication notorious for always siding with establishment D.C., noted that Patterson was widely seen among Republicans “as the key implementer for a policy that at least offers tacit support to the Muslim Brotherhood.”

Such is the person that General Mattis wants to place in a top Pentagon position.

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Ambassadors carry out the policies of POTUS, and #44 was almost engaged to Morsi.

Patterson entered the Foreign Service in 1973 – a career Foreign Service officer, like her husband, and, like Ryan Crocker, Patterson’s predecessor as Ambassador to Pakistan.

One can assume there is a need for ‘institutional memory’ with so much restructuring of the entire State and Defense departments now in process. Based on her experience, she would be an invaluable resource on the world of Islam. One of the changes that has to be wrestled with is how military aid got moved to State, when it probably should be at Defense.

President Reagan also had serious problems with his appointees; yet he managed to secure a good legacy.

Concerning Sebastien Zorn’s question, I imagine the President’s Jewish daughter and son-in-law have significant influence, as do Reince Priebus and Steve Bannon. They are all pro-Israel.

I pray for the President, his family and his staff every day. I trust that the God of Israel is interested in the world, especially in those who call on His name and trust in Him. The safety of my children and grandchildren is in His hands, including those who live in Communist China — and yes, I also pray for President Xi Jinping, every day.

Israel is distinguished from the nations of the world, in that they are God’s chosen people. He has looked after them, preserving them against powerful enemies for nearly 4000 years. Looked at in that perspective, Anne Patterson’s record, and President Trump’s disagreement with Gen. Mattis (and with Gen. McMaster, for that matter) are manageable.

God bless and keep everyone here. Keep up the good work!

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